Posted on 11/25/2025 1:12:38 PM PST by Red Badger
Experts warn drought and water mismanagement have made the city's development unsustainable
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has suggested his country's capital will need to be moved from Tehran due to ecological unsustainability in the city.
Speaking at a meeting in Qazvin, the president warned that relocating the capital would become unavoidable given the overcrowding and water shortages in the city of 9.7 million.
His government has proposed the underdeveloped Makran region in southeastern Iran as a possible new location.
"When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget - otherwise it might have happened," Pezeshkian told officials.
"People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional."
Pezeshkian said continuing to develop Tehran was unsustainable.
"We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved," he said.
Concerns over water shortages have been mounting in Tehran, which has been struck by a crippling drought with Iranian media even speculating about the possibility of evacuating the capital.
Environmental experts have said the city needs to use water-saving equipment and shift to modern water management methods.
They have warned that, alongside the ongoing drought, poor management of water resources is a major cause of rationing in the capital.
'Nothing more we can do' Hassan Akhani, a prominent environmental expert, told the reformist Arman-e Melli outlet earlier this week that the government had repeatedly ignored their warnings.
“We said years ago that Tehran’s ecological capacity had reached its limit and no one paid attention,” he said.
“The fact that no one listened is not our fault, and there is nothing more we can do.”
Tehran’s dams normally supply 70 percent of the city's water, with the rest provided by underground resources. Low rainfall and increased evaporation have, however, reduced the dams’ water share and put pressure on groundwater.
Pezeshkian has been among those repeatedly warning about the need for action over Tehran's water crisis.
Last month, he said he had raised the prospect of moving the capital with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
No need to move. Just attack Israel and they’ll help you reduce your population by half.
Aloha SnackBar !
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These fundamentalist fanatics are good at executing torturing dissidents, but awful at managing essential modern utilities. These clowns trusted moon god allah to provide water for Teheran.
The Caspian Report from Azerbaijan just claimed a few months ago that Iranian population will have to move north towards Tehran due to water supply. Just lately the Mullah government is talking of the Tehran population being forced south toward the Persian Gulf.
They lack the budget to move the government, but they have plenty of cash to create regional mayhem.
We should do the same.
Make Persepolis Great Again.
Much like our own home grown idiots in California could be selling water to Nevada and Arizona if they had used all that money on desalination plants along the coast instead of a useless high speed train with not a single mile of track laid to date.
Send in Greta to save the day.
All that money spent on funding terrorists could have helped solve this.
I’ll take “Things that wouldn’t have happened with The Shah for $400”, Alex.
Just an idea, maybe don’t waste 4.5% of your GDP on military spending, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist proxies for 40 years and you could build a few pipelines and desalination facilities.
Just across the Persian Gulf the UAE has desalinization plants that supply all the water they could possibly need. To bad Iran spent all of their money on developing nukes and funding terrorism. Idiots.
I’m not sure what they plan to do with almost 10 million people, but they are going to have to be relocated to somewhere. Tehran is out of water.
I bet the UN will “decree” that the U.S. has to take them in.
“...drought and water mismanagement...”
Gavin Newsome has experience in those areas. Send him over to help.
Maybe the Iranians still have some of the Billion Dollar pallets that Obama gave them for moving the population and for desalination!
10 million people will have to move. 😮
one article i read said that the pumping rate of their natural underground reservoirs was faster than the reservoirs were being refilled from underground sources, resulting in subsidence of the overlying land crushing the reservoirs so that they were being permanently ruined ...
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